West Midlands Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training
Co-ordinators’ Meeting
Friday 1 May 2009, 10.30am
RAF Cosford Museum, Shropshire
Attendees:
1.
Fergus McKay (Chair)
Susan Martin
Lucy Moss (Secretary)
Penny Ottewill
Jean Garner
Vron Leslie
Jill Hardman
Jayne Hedges
Mary Whitehouse
Anne Schofield
Margaret Hunter
Mike Smith
Louise Jones
Introductions and Apologies
The Chair asked each attendee to introduce themselves. Apologies were received from Elaine
Goodall.
2.
Matters Arising
The Business Plan has been agreed by LSIS and is now well underway.
3.
Communication
Fergus requested that information relating to the delivery of courses was communicated to
the office as there have been recent incidents where a tutor has been unwell and we have
not had the information necessary to communicate with the students.
Action: SM to issue a form to include all contact
details of tutors, students and venue
4.
Community of Practitioners
VL updated everyone on the progress of the Community of Practitioners, including that the
Bulletin is being very well received by practitioners.
Action: All to send articles/ideas for the Bulletin to
Vron
5.
Mentoring Project
JHa updated everyone on the progress of the Mentoring ARP project. JHa has sent an interim
report to LSIS summarising all the projects and how they are being received. A mentoring
workshop is being held on 18 June to assist people in compiling and writing up their end of
project reports.
6.
HEI Network
The HEI Network is now referred to as the HEI Forum, with six partner institutions:
University of Worcester
Birmingham City University
Staffordshire University
University of Wolverhampton
University of Warwick
JISC
FM will shortly be commencing the LSIS-funded dissemination project with them, including
funding 3 workshops in September (Wolverhampton), December (Worcester) and March
(Warwick), where deliverers from partner colleges will be able to discuss issues that inform
practice. Each workshop will be themed, with the first one being about IT/E learning.
7.
Publicity
It was suggested that the CETT produces materials detailing what the CETT can offer
organisations and learners. A discussion followed regarding possible content and formats.
Action: FM to circulate ideas by email for
brainstorming
8.
CBED
PO updated the meeting on the progress in development of the Contextualised, Blended and
Extended Diploma.
9.
Forthcoming Events
The team gave updates on forthcoming events. LM will post details to the WMCETT website.
Details of any future events should be sent to LM.
Action: LM to post items on website and ALL to
send through future event details for publicity
10.
AOB
FM announced that Anne Schofield has been appointed as the IfL Connections Adviser for
the region.
FM thanked LM for her significant contribution to WMCETT during her time in post, and all
present wished her every success with the move to Merseyside.
FM also announced that following LM’s departure from the CETT on 15 May, Julie
Chamberlain will be taking over the role of Project Administrator.
MS highlighted that a number of organisations WMCETT works with on a day to day basis are
rationalising in the current economic climate, and there will be redundancies. PO also
suggested that it was very likely that a number of organisations would go out of business in
the coming months.
11.
Date, time and location of next meeting, and September meeting
The next two meetings will be on Friday 17 July at the University of Warwick and Tuesday 22
September at a venue in Worcestershire.